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Forgetting Lot's wife : on destructive spectatorship /
Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot?s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot?s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all lead back to the story of Lot?s wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This biblical story of punishment and transformation, a nexus of sexuality, sight, and cities, becomes the template for the modern fear that looking back at dis. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 155 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-150) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823241026 0823241025 9780823247387 0823247384 1282698745 9781282698741 9780823237647 0823237648 9786612698743 6612698748 0823227359 9780823227358 |